To Lady of Pain.
Though she did not know much about Orsaga's specific definitions for the various Coping Levels.
She knew that Orsaga did not think highly of her subordinates.
It was a kind of utterly undisguised contempt.
He basically looked at them the way one looked at monkeys.
Even when facing the gods she had chosen, the situation had not improved much—or rather, it had not changed at all. He still retained that unhidden, dismissive attitude.
In this regard.
Originally, Lady of Pain had not paid much attention to such matters.
However, as she looked at Worida Mala, whom Orsaga had cleanly and efficiently dealt with like slaughtering a pig, and at the gathering place of the gods beyond the Material Plane, where the situation had become so tense that every crane's cry and every rustle of wind seemed like an enemy approaching...
After her sigh, she could not help but begin considering questions she had never cared about before.
Those fellows did seem to be somewhat weak...
As a god.
Even if it had only been an avatar, Worida Mala's completely helpless death was, in the end, rather humiliating...
Unaware that even she herself had not received a high rating from Orsaga, after thinking briefly, she quickly spoke to Orsaga in a casual, chatty tone:
"I feel like pushing their potential a little, treating it as some training for them..."
In this respect.
Just as gods, when wishing to force out mortals' potential, would use all sorts of high-sounding excuses to bestow trials upon them, making them endure countless hardships and thereby forcing them through all kinds of transformations.
When facing Lady of Pain, the gods' status was much the same as mortals' status when facing themselves...
In Lady of Pain's current view.
Those gods were simply a